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The complete mystery behind Rajiv Gandhi assassination has never really come out. If Rahotaman, the CBI sleuth who investigated the assassination, is to be believed, the role of few key political insiders, belonging to Congress party, has not been properly investigated.

One does not need to be a geopolitical expert to figure out it was China that immensely benefited from the fallout of Rajiv Gandhi murder. It gained unprecedented leverage over the island nation along with Pakistan. It was the LTTE which suffered the worst because of its role in Rajiv Gandhi murder. The assassination drastically changed the political scenario in India and helped a thoroughly discredited and a completely demoralized Congress party to come to power. But for the assassination of Rajiv, BJP riding on the Ayodhya wave, would have been within striking distance of power. In fact, propping up Chandrasekhar government itself was a ploy by Rajiv Gandhi to tide over the Ayodhya wave. Chandrasekar government, had in it ranks, elements who owed greater personal allegiance to Rajiv and China than loyalty to Chandrasekhar or commitment to Indian strategic interest.

On the whole, China benefitted strategically and Congress benefitted politically on account of Rajiv Gandhi’s elimination. The greatest setbacks were to a) Tamils, who had to bear the catastrophic consequences of a genocidal civil war and b) geo-strategic interests of India in the Indian Ocean region. It is within the realms of possibility that pro-Chinese forces, based both in Indian polity and abroad, could have played on the short term fears of LTTE, by feeding it with misinformation about Indian political scenario and could have used them as an instrument in eliminating Rajiv Gandhi.

While LTTE itself was an instrument in the hands of unseen players who are at large still, those arrested and sentenced to death were still pawns in the hands of LTTE and thus twice removed from the actual planners of the gory killing of the 16 innocent persons along with Rajiv Gandhi ex-PM.

Because there is a need for an emotional reconciliation

Nehruvian Indian state has consistently neglected and even betrayed its commitment to culturally related Indic people outside India. Sufferings of Bangladeshi Hindus and Sri Lankan Tamil Hindus stand as testimony to callous approach of Nehruvian Indian state. Today Sri Lankan Tamils have become a global diaspora and targets of Proselytizers. It is in the Dharmic duty of Indian state to free itself from that original Nehruvian sin and tend to the wounds caused by such policies of arrogance and ignorance of the umbilical relations of culture and spirituality.

Tamils, it should be remembered, are part of the pan-Hindu family. They have undergone a trauma and a great human loss. Congress, which had pampered Palestinian terrorists in Indian soil, has never given half the respectful treatment that the Tamil movement in Sri Lanka deserved. Even worse, the Congress tried to manipulate them and use them instead of sincerely trying to solve their issues respecting their identity. And that manipulation backfired as it did in the case of Sikh separatism were the Sikh separatism nurtured by Indira Gandhi led to her death.

As every day new footages of atrocious and inhuman killings of Tamils in Sri Lanka surface, there is an increasing number of Tamils in Indian mainland who become emotionally alienated from their pan-Indian identity. Voices of support for Mahindra Rajapakshe, from certain quarters of national parties, actually do not serve the cause of Indian unity. On the contrary it allows anti-Indian forces to foment trouble and reinforce their propaganda that the ‘Aryan’ ‘Brahminical’ North India is always against the interest of Tamils. However these anti-Indian forces conveniently forget that one man who staunchly opposed India’s myopic misadventure in the island and called for a detailed and a more empathetic study of Sri Lankan situation was himself a Brahmin – A.P.Venkateswaran. It cost him his post as foreign secretary. Rajiv Gandhi removed him in the most humiliating manner.

Some quarters in India often confuse the Dravidian racism with Sri Lankan Tamil movement. Though the Dravidian and Theosophical movements did play their roles in shaping the pseudo-scientific notion of Aryan-Dravidian binary in Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan Tamils did not inherit the mental disease of anti-Hindu hatred that is central to Tamil Nadu Dravidian narrative. The confusion has led to a blind spot in certain people which refuses to see even the colossal human tragedy that our brethren have undergone in Sri Lanka.

Recent times has come as a rude awakening to many genuine supporters of Tamil movement. They are realizing that the preachers of Dravidian/Tamil separatism are clownish manipulators who perniciously exploited the Tamil sentiments for their own prosperity and their family welfare. And in the process they never cared whether Tamils lived or died. Today they realize that they could get justice only within India. Today they realize that Vai.Ko, an ally of BJP and Jethmalani, a maverick liberal patriot committed unequivocally to idea of an united India, have done more for the cause of Tamils than those who plan for weakening India and sing songs of Dravidian racism. Even if Jethmalani argued the case as only a professional lawyer, even then Tamils should feel grateful to this venerable old lawyer.

Thus Hindu nationalism or the cultural nationalism of this land has won over the impractical unhistorical linguistic separatism. Only a strong united India can save and serve the interests of Tamils and provide them justice. Only a central government that respects and values the spiritual and cultural contribution of Tamils to the very existence of India can make India strong and united. Hence the clemency shown to the death-sentenced Tamils naturally is an act of reconciliation and reinforcement of the idea of culturally and spiritually united India.

Supporting the clemency and subsequent move of the Tamil Nadu government to release the prisoners does not in any way endorse either the violence of LTTE or the Dravidian racism. On the other hand this is an opportunity for the Hindu Sanghathanists to drive home the point that only a united culturally sensitive India can serve the cause of Tamils worldwide.

If you have doubts then just have a look at the judgments delivered by Honorable 40th Chief Justice of India.

Aravindan Neelakandan

Co-author of acclaimed book "Breaking India", Aravindan Neelakandan has worked for the past decade with an NGO in Tamil Nadu serving marginalized rural communities in sustainable agriculture. He is also a popular science writer in Tamil and is part of the editorial team of highly popular Tamil web portal www.tamilhindu.com.

Brilliant piece Aravindan. People really brush over the fact what a shoddy investigation took place. Ignore the jain commision reports. Ignore SC observations on the TADA court. And just take a one track mind when it comes to Rajiv’s killers. I do not support the gung-ho methods of JJ here who took the remission decision suo moto without any commission recommending their release. Nor do I think the 3 day deadline is legal. She is obviously playing it political. I still don’t understand the antagonism with which this issue is treated by Sanghis.

Abhilash V

Replace ‘Tamils’ with ‘Muslims’, ‘Sri Lanka’ with ‘Kashmir’ and ‘Rajiv Killers’ with ‘Afsal Guru’ in this article and were to be published in a Pakistani newspaper, what would you say Mr. Aravindan?

Jishnu

Try changing and you’d know it that makes any sense. India never had to respond because SL invaded India or because SL tried creating a havoc within India. That is because SL is Hindu-Buddhist in its thought. Commonsense cannot allow anyone to overlook this and equate Tamils with Muslims (or replace those words and try making sense out of the Tamil story).

GanapathyI

I endorse this write-up. It
is the Indian constitution which has given power to a state govt to
release prisoners. I hope anti-Indian anti-Hindu pro-Eelam parties and
their activists will understand and realize this basic foundation and
stop spewing venom against India.

Jishnu

Is that power indiscriminate or based on some rule or rhyme? Whether it is mercy or good conduct or any such basis on which you can release hardened criminals, it should be explainable.

NK Sarma

this article is like ‘The Hindus-Alternate history’. Publicity seeking and the weakest article from Sri Neelakantan. Hanging these terrorists is nothing to do against virat hindu but will only strengthen the hindu resolve for justice. LTTE is church funded and most of the hindu sounding names are crypto christians which is a known strategy of church. Most tamils have a sense of united India and the dravidian concept is dying. I’m sure most of us will remember how TN mourned when Rajiv was assassinated. Hence, most tamils will support the life imprisonment. So freeing these killers will only inject a sense of injustice in this country and will not help in attracting tamil hindus. It will only motivate terrorists and evangelists. What Sri Neelakantan has written for publicity will provide exactly opposite result of what he wrote.

Prashanth .U Ganpathi

Mr. NK Sarma I am a nationalistic Tamil. And you are completely wrong about how I feel about tamil issue. This blindness of Indians to how tamils feel is the issue this article is trying to address. Hanging is out of the question now as SC has decided on it.

Prashanth .U Ganpathi

Srilanka is a different country. Kashmir is not. If you constantly compare the TN who wept with the rest of India at Rajiv’s assassination with Kashmir, you risk disenfranchising more in the region. TN contributes positively to nation building for the last 65 years and yet you compare this with Kashmir??? I want to know why India supports independence efforts in Baluchistan even if it was ? Why is there a humanitarian voice of compassion when it comes to Hindus in Pakistan and Bangladesh but it not extended to Hindus of Srilanka who have faced the same hostility for the last 50 years without which groups like LTTE would have never been born. I am not suggesting these guys should be released. But please adopt some degree of compassion and knowledge on the subject. Do not blindly compare this with Kashmir.

Prashanth .U Ganpathi

I have to agree that they should not be released without any basis and for purely political purpose as is being done now.

Joseph Anton

“The complete mystery behind Rajiv Gandhi assassination has never really come out. If Rahotaman, the CBI sleuth who investigated the assassination, is to be believed, the role of few key political insiders, belonging to Congress party, has not been properly investigated.”

When loony Islamist fanatics say such things about 9/11, they are rightly recognized for the dangerous conspiracy theorists they are. And here he is, eminent and leading CRI / Hindutva intellectual, starting his article spouting ludicrous crackpot theories.

Mr. Neelakandan’s other articles here and elsewhere are equally crackpot-ish, but only more egosyntonic with the intended audience on this site.

Karthic

You must be a Subbu saamy fan ? Amirite ?

Stop throwing around buzzwords like Virat Hindu when all you could is turn a blind eye to the sinhalese massacre of Lankan Tamil Hindus (they are more virat and true to roots than you people ever were) and desecration of hundreds of temples. Is this what a Virat Hindu does ? If this is the definition of a Virat Hindu, then to hell with that.

p.s: I dont give a shit to Rajiv Gandhi.

Signed,
A tamil hindu nationalist.

Jishnu

Why’s that a crackpot theory? With what data can you assert that? With what data can you say the investigation is complete in all respects, whether it is Rajiv or Indira murder?

Koenraad Elst

Important if true. I hadn’t seen the China angle and didn’t know anything about an intra-Congress intrigue. I thought (and this article gives no data to refute it) that the assassination could be explained in sufficient measure as an LTTE initiative. Why look any further?

giddaluru veerendra

Well argued, but given the precarious situation of national security, it’s time we started looking at things like terrorism/naxalism in black & white. If a terrorist/naxalite is caught, use the most severe punishment you got, send out the message that acts of terrorism/naxalism will never go unpunished on our soil.

Joseph Anton

If one is so inclined, one can always pick up random facts from that vast cauldron of intrigue that is intra-Congress politics to suit one’s favorite theory. The China angle is less common – but, hey, why not – the American angle has been used enough times!

The more relevant question is – why would one be so inclined?

Joseph Anton

For any given probability, there are endless other possibilities. In reasonable conversations, thankfully, data is not demanded for the refutation of unlikely possibilities. The highly visible process by which the particular probability came to the fore is one reason why.

But, hey, one can never be too sure. The NASA moon landings may have been fake. 9/11 could have been that perfect Mossad plot. Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination may have been the handiwork of a disgruntled Congressman. Narendra Modi may have tried very hard to stop the highly organized post-Godhra violence. One can never be sure..

Jitendra Desai

As the CM of a state, she has to respect the law of the land.As per this law, these people were jailed for the killing.It is humanitarian to commute their death sentence.but it is politics of the lowest order to “pretend” that she wants to release them.she knew, she could not and yet she played it up.Why?

Jishnu

Probability, reasonable, anything can happen. Nice. So when asked how you judge something a crackpot theory, this is the pervert reasoning you have – whatever you call it, be it reasoning or sarcasm.

Question here is NOT of possibility, question here is whether the investigation is complete in that respect. If it is, and if those aspects do not come out, that is one thing. If the investigation is scuttled from going into certain directions, then this probability theory ain’t gonna work. And on that count, you cannot judge certain ‘possibilities’ as crackpot theories, whether they are possibilities or probabilities or facts.

Now the problem with guys like you is faith, which is why you try to retreat from data or method. Not because it is not reasonably to back one’s assertions. For instance, Rajiv assassination’s roots are prevented from investigation, and scope was limited to LTTE. There IS data to say, the investigation if allowed to be done properly, was going into several aspects which were scuttled by the big bosses. There is no conspiracy or crackpot theory here. There are prevaricators who ran a conspiracy theory of Modi not doing his best during Guj riots – and on this investigation DID happen without being scuttled. So there is data to say your assertions are BS. So don’t gimme this ‘can’t be too sure’.

NK Sarma

You must be an LTTE terrorists supporter. I give a shit to subby saamy. Its not me who started using virat hindu, but the author Neelakantan. Read the article first. Don’t compare Lankan hindus with me without knowing me. Your whole reply is unrelated to what I wrote. I never said anything about lankan tamils, but only about LTTE terrorists, while you ignored the word LTTE conviniently. Dude, LTTE is not same as Lankan tamils or Lankan hindus. LTTE is a terrorists organisation who killed Lankan hindus in the 80s when you were just born may be. Take this, I support lankan tamils, but not LTTE terrorists and their sympathisers like you. I stand for punishing lankan army for their war crimes against LTTE, but that humanitarian, not out of love for LTTE. If you don’t give shit about assassination of my countries prime minister, take this, its called sedition in my country. Change your sign to LTTE terrorist, don’t spoil tamil hindu reputation. There can only be hindu nationalist, not tamil hindu nationalist.

Sekhars

You just criticize Arvindan without providing any evidence or calling him liar with out any evidence. Read your post it lacks any evidence against what he has been saying. You sound more ludicrous and appears to have agenda against pro hindu sentiments.

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